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The Medium Fella

I can live with that.

Created on 2009-06-09 20:20:51 (#20540610), last updated 2009-06-15

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Basic Info

Name:	X5-494/Alec McDowell
Birthdate:	12-21
Location:	Terminal City, Washington, United States

Bio

"I'm always ready. I'm always alright."

PERSONAL DETAILS

Aliases: 494, Alec McDowell, Simon Lehane, Monty Cora
Age: Early 20s
Home: Terminal City, Seattle
Occupation: Former Manticore assassin/soldier, retired cage fighter, Jam Pony bike messenger, thief, illegal interest business man, pool hustler.
Designation: X5-331845739494

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eye Color: Hazel green
Hair Color: Dark blond
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 178 pounds

INFO

"Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."

Alex is a transgenic, though he prefers genetically empowered, and is an X5. Born to a surrogate mother, he was bred, trained, and raised by Manticore, a facility that used experimental genetic technology to produce various classes of enhanced beings for warfare.

HISTORY

Just before "The Pulse" (an electro-magnetic pulse bomb set off over the United States), Max Guevara and a number of her unit escaped from Manticore in 2009. X5-494, however, was not one of the '09 escapees and did not achieve his freedom until more than 10 years later when Max instigated the destruction of Manticore and freed the transgenics. Alec was already outside of the compound then, assigned to corral Max back to Manticore and to facilitate the capture and/or death of Eyes Only.

Once free, he engaged in various methods, generally illegal, to gain quick cash; one of the first was cage fighting. He hadn't planning on doing that long, but ceased altogether (excepting mental coercion) after getting caught, was forced to kill, and then nearly killed by Ames White, the deadly agent assigned to hunt down and destroy all escaped transgenics. Alec then emulated Max by working at Jam Pony (a bike messenger service) in order to secure a Sector Pass and scout potential places to steal from. He ran various scams and had a few shady business dealings around the city, but tended to limit himself to products that won't result in getting his clientele killed, thereby limiting his customer base.

Wired for survival, Alec initially looked out only for himself, but through Max's influence, and his own repressed conscience, he changed; enough that he willingly and often risks himself for friends and transgenics in distress.

Later on, Alec and Max worked together to build up the new community for Manticore escapees dubbed Terminal City (a.k.a. Transgenic City, or more commonly: T.C.), a place that's part of Seattle that's biohazardous to Ordinaries but safe for Transgenics, where they could live and defend themselves from the hostile "ordinaries" (normal humans), as well as the government.

POWERS & ABILITIES

As is standard with X5s (and partially shared with the other transgenics), he has many superior physical traits, including:

-- Enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, stamina, and coordination, including the abilitity to jump extremely high.
-- Accelerated healing with stem cells and metabolism, which makes it very difficult to become drunk.
-- Enhanced eyesight, which allows him to see perfectly in the dark and selectively zoom in on objects from great distances, and hearing.
-- Enhanced immune system--all transgenics were made immune to all common bio-warfare agents.
-- Eidetic memory.
-- Genius level IQ.

Although he appears to be an ordinary human (except for the bar code on the back of his neck that's genetically encoded into his DNA), he possesses extraordinary physical strength, able to overpower a man three times his weight, his reflexes are superhumanly fast, and his eyesight and sense of hearing and smell are extremely acute, which, along with his training, would make it very hard for someone or something to catch him by surprise.

He can leap great distances vertically, allowing him to jump over a barbed fence, and is capable of sprinting at extreme speeds allowing him to blur, making it very difficult for anyone to catch him on foot, except another transgenic.

X5s have enhanced night vision, to the point where they can see well in very little light, and telescopic vision, allowing them to selectively zoom in, and view objects from a distance.

All transgenics have a high number of stem cells in their blood allowing for them to have extremely high regeneration rates. However, if an X5's organ becomes extremely damaged, such as a bullet to the heart, it has to be replaced, and can only be replaced with an X5 or bio-mechanical substitute. All X5s are O-negative blood-typed and are universal donors but can only receive from another X5.

Their metabolisms are extremely high, thus making them almost completely insusceptible to alcohol and possibly poisons.

X5s are very dexterous and have extraordinary agility and coordination and advanced lung capacity, allowing them to perform complicated acrobatic and gymnastic maneuvers that would be very difficult for a human, with ease.

In addition to his superior physique, Alec possesses a genius level I.Q. and problem-solving skills. He is very gifted at assessing people and situations, which makes him highly adaptive to change and able to learn and mimic with extreme speed and accuracy.

SKILLS

X5s, meant to be the (transgenic) officers, were exceptionally well trained and suited for military combat, strategy, and espionage (including various weapons and martial arts).

Like all X5s, Alec endured brutal physical and mental training and rigid discipline (brainwashing) from childhood till the time of his escape, and his training combined with his enhanced physique makes him nearly unstoppable when facing normal humans, though he is by no means invincible.

Trained as a Manticore supersoldier/assassin, some assumptions are that: he is highly skilled in CQB, recon, infiltration, tracking, observation, escape and evasion, espionage, computers, explosives, and handling vehicles (including various military planes and helicopters), has achieved fluency in many languages, and has a black belt in various martial arts such as Krav Maga,Taekwondo,and Judo.

X5s, as children, were trained to hold their breath for four minutes and can hold their breath for much longer as adults.

Alec (as X5-494) became a concert-level pianist in less than a day in preparation for the Berrisford mission.

WARNING

LEGAL ADULT AND FICTIONAL SEXUAL OR VIOLENT CONTENT.

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DISCLAIMER

X5-494/Alec McDowell is from the TV series, Dark Angel. He appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing, from which no profit whatsoever is being made. No disrespect or infringement is intended. Alec's info is taken from the Wiki.

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